Florida once was regarded as the prototypical swing state, much like Nevada, which voted Republican six times in the past dozen presidential elections and went Democratic six times in the same period.

A session that started under the lingering shadow of a bitter yet short-lived argument over immigration came sputtering to an ...

Florida used to be an eastern political version of Nevada. Now it is a southern political version of Idaho. Florida once was regarded as the prototypical swing state, much like Nevada, which voted ...